Awards

2018

Patrick De Pue won the Soete Prize as acknowledgement for his contribution as a technician to the scientific research in the faculty of Engineering & Architecture. The prize was presented to Patrick during the New Year's reception of the faculty on Wednesday 10/01/2018.

2017

The research team Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer has been awarded three best paper awards on the HEAT Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics conference in Portoroz (Slovenia) in July 2017.

Antonio Toti wins the Young Professional Award in recognition of the outstanding quality of the paper "Numerical analysis of a dissymmetric transient in the pool-type facility E-SCAPE through coupled system thermal-hydraulic and CFD codes". Awarded on the occasion of the NURETH-17 International Topical Meeting, September 3-8, 2017, Xi'an, China.

2016

Alessandro D'Ausilio, PhD researcher in the group of Prof Bart Merci and alumnus of the Master's programme in Chemical Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II, has won the student award "Mario Maria Jacopetti 2016" in the category 'Best Master's Thesis in the field of Chemistry, Electrochemistry and Electrotechnic'. Alessandro carried out research on the optimization of the water spray induction charging method for Wet Electrostatic Scrubbers.

The research team Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer has been awarded six best paper awards on the HEAT Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics conference in Malaga (Spain) in July 2016.

2015

Michel De Paepe & Arnold Janssens have been awarded with the Burnay Foundation price for the project 'Design rules and pre-standard calculations for energy storage technologies in buildings'. The award was presented by ATIC for their 75th birthday. (17/03/2015)

Bart Van Weyenberge (PhD student in the group of Prof. Bart Merci) wins FireForum Award for his PhD research on 'Development of a risk analysis methodology to quantify life safety in case of fire in buildings'. (19/11/2015)

Jolan Wauters (PhD student in the group of Prof. Joris Degroote & Prof. Jan Vierendeels) wins a poster award at the 16th FEA research symposium for this poster 'How to FENCE OFF an airplane crash!'. (09/12/2015)

2014

Louis Sileghem and Roel Verschaeren are awarded at the PhD Symposium organized by the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture Ugent for their posters 'Alcohol and Driving : Always a Bad Idea?' (Louis) and 'Reducing the Environmental Impact of Marine Diesel Engines' (Roel) (05/12/2014)

2013

Bart Merci is nominated for the Ghent University Prometheus Award – Academic Excellence in Research (18/12/2013)

Joris Bols wins the second prize at the Mimics Innovation Awards with his paper "A computational method to assess in vivo stresses and the unloaded configuration of patient-specific blood vessels" (24/04/2013)

2012

Joris Degroote wins the first prize with his poster "Partitioned solution of the unsteady adjoint equations for a one-dimensional fluid-structure interaction problem" at the 37th Conference of the Dutch-Flemish Numerical Analysis Communities (Woudschoten, the Netherlands, 3-5/10/2012)

Alexander Donche, Marnix Van Belleghem, Kathleen De Kerpel, Arnold Janssens, Michel De Paepe win the Outstanding Paper Award in the category "Power Plants and Cogeneration" with their paper "Prediction of mold risk in cavity walls combining a coupled CFD/HAM-model and a 2D hygrothermal model: the influence of the outer cavity layer on the inner cavity layer" at the Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics Conference (HEFAT2012, Saint-Julian, Malta, 16-19/07/2012)

Kathleen De Kerpel and Michel De Paepe win the Outstanding Paper Award in the category "Two Phase Flow" with their paper "Void fraction measurements of refrigerant flow in small diameter tubes using a capacitive sensor" at the Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics Conference (HEFAT2012, Saint-Julian, Malta, 16-19/07/2012)

2011

Steven Verstockt wins the Science and Technology Fireforum Award with his PhD "Multi-modal Video Analysis for Early Fire Detection" with as supervisors Rik Van de Walle, Bart Merci and Sofie Vanhoecke (17/11/2011)

Bart Merci wins the Societal Importance Fireforum Award with the Postgraduate Studies in Fire Safety Engineering and International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering (17/11/2011)

Paul Vandevelde wins the Life Time Achievement Fireforum Award (17/11/2011)

Liesbeth Taelman wins the Young Investigator Award at the meeting of the Artery Society (Artery 11, Paris, France) with her work "Predicting the functional impact of residual aortic coarctation lesions during exercise using advanced computer model simulations" (16/10/2011)

Bernd Ameel and Michel De Paepe win the Outstanding Paper Award in the category "Advanced Energy and/or Environmental Systems" with their paper “Using Liquid Air as a Way to Store Energy” at the Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics Conference (HEFAT2011, Pointe Aux Piments, Mauritius, 11-13/07/2011)

Sven De Schampheleire wins the Atlas Copco Airpower Prize for his master thesis "Thermohydraulic study of metal foams as an alternative for louvered fins in heat exchangers" with Michel De Paepe as supervisor (06/07/2011)

2010

Joris Degroote wins the biennial International Club of Flanders award "Andreas De Leenheer" for the Beta sciences (14/12/2010)

2004

Stefaan Verstraeten is awarded a Fisita Travelling Fellowship and wins second prize with the paper 'A high speed single cylinder hydrogen fuelled internal combustion engine' at the student conference

Sebastian Verhelst wins the first poster prize at the COMBURA (Combustion Research and Applications) 2004 conference in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands, with the poster 'Simulation of the power cycle of hydrogen fuelled S.I. engines'